Facebook hires spooks, too

Facebook hires spooks, too
By Terry A. Hurlbut
The yen for investigative journalism seems to have caught on. The provocative Twitter Files series by the team of Matt Taibbi, Bari Weiss, and Mike Shellenberger has inspired others. One of these, who won’t share his name even in the account name, decided to investigate Facebook. (The “he/him/his” pronouns are tentative; CNAV follows the convention of using masculine third-person singular pronouns when the gender of a living thing, especially a human being, is not clear.) Using the simplest publicly available tools, he found at least 115 former intelligence officers working at Facebook! In a sixty-tweet thread, he gave the details last night.
The (unofficial) Facebook Files
Here is the thread:
https://twitter.com/NameRedacted247/status/1604641868519600128
https://twitter.com/NameRedacted247/status/1604641872550383616
https://twitter.com/NameRedacted247/status/1604641881110941697
https://twitter.com/NameRedacted247/status/1604641889759555584
https://twitter.com/NameRedacted247/status/1604641950178500609
https://twitter.com/NameRedacted247/status/1604641959443714050
https://twitter.com/NameRedacted247/status/1604641968830574595
https://twitter.com/NameRedacted247/status/1604641977504436224
https://twitter.com/NameRedacted247/status/1604641984806690817
https://twitter.com/NameRedacted247/status/1604641990536097792
https://twitter.com/NameRedacted247/status/1604641994801676288
https://twitter.com/NameRedacted247/status/1604641998815735808
https://twitter.com/NameRedacted247/status/1604645182296580096
https://twitter.com/NameRedacted247/status/1604645190760685568
https://twitter.com/NameRedacted247/status/1604645197488345089
https://twitter.com/NameRedacted247/status/1604645204740358145
https://twitter.com/NameRedacted247/status/1604645210813739009
https://twitter.com/NameRedacted247/status/1604645217818157056
https://twitter.com/NameRedacted247/status/1604645223904051200
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https://twitter.com/NameRedacted247/status/1604645235945938944
https://twitter.com/NameRedacted247/status/1604645242296094721
https://twitter.com/NameRedacted247/status/1604645248692469760
https://twitter.com/NameRedacted247/status/1604645254493110273
https://twitter.com/NameRedacted247/status/1604645260696489984
https://twitter.com/NameRedacted247/status/1604646083358969856
https://twitter.com/NameRedacted247/status/1604646089558478848
https://twitter.com/NameRedacted247/status/1604646096797437953
https://twitter.com/NameRedacted247/status/1604646103583838209
https://twitter.com/NameRedacted247/status/1604646109862731777
Notice that Facebook hired most of these employees after the Election of 2016 and after the FBI established its Foreign Influence Task Force. As one user noticed right away:
https://twitter.com/John_Reston_II/status/1604661454342426626
Clearly the “Intelligence Community” determined from the moment Donald Trump stood on a stage, with Jerry Goldsmith’s main title theme from Air Force One playing to herald him, that they would have that man out of the White House as soon as possible. Hence his impeachment – and the censorship campaign.
Several users pointed out the relationship between government and “technology,” like this one:
https://twitter.com/Jules31415/status/1604776422190772229
One person asked, “But I thought you were all pro-law enforcement!” That’s actually a contradiction, and ignores the difference between legitimate law enforcement and tyranny.
https://twitter.com/DecTruth/status/1604862910333071361
At least some know to ask the right questions:
https://twitter.com/KHDoucette/status/1604819823237779456
At least one person claims a possible harm from the Facebook and intelligence community association.
https://twitter.com/don_th3_dragon/status/1604650096993259520
This user notes that many of these people have Twitter accounts – and Yoel Roth follows them.
https://twitter.com/OwenGregorian/status/1604698962040328192
Of course, Mark Zuckerburg supports this activity at Facebook with a whole heart.
https://twitter.com/rajeshxsingh/status/1604756887286984706
Two other users suggest this has been going on for much longer, and connect it with Operation Mockingbird at CIA.
https://twitter.com/ronaldarguello/status/1604645792995762178
https://twitter.com/JasonRadboy/status/1604708304734879746
Analysis
So what about Google and Apple? One might as well ask about Amazon, also.
The worst problem with Facebook is that many companies actually use Facebook for leader-team communications. The evidence of this thread suggests that the U.S. intelligence community can see those communications. Any company that asks its staff (full-time, part-time or seasonal) to use Facebook for team comms should ask itself: do we want the FBI or other alphabet-soup agencies to see our orders to team members, or team members’ messages to one another?
Now we know why President Trump proposed a seven-day moratorium before anyone retiring from intelligence work hires on at Facebook. Or at any other Big Tech firm or other social medium. This problem goes further than the intelligence community betraying a sitting President, or affecting Presidential or other elections. Might we see a private “team leader” get a call from the FBI:
We thought you ought to know that one of your associates, who is out there representing your company in public, likes to dabble in mis/dis/malinformation elsewhere on Facebook, and other places besides.
And anyone who works at such a company must now ask himself how private his “own time” still is. Suddenly the Parallel Economy looks more attractive than ever.
Link to:
The article:
https://cnav.news/2022/12/19/editorial/talk/facebook-hire-spooks/

The thread:
https://twitter.com/NameRedacted247/status/1604641868519600128
https://twitter.com/NameRedacted247/status/1604641872550383616
https://twitter.com/NameRedacted247/status/1604641881110941697
https://twitter.com/NameRedacted247/status/1604641889759555584
https://twitter.com/NameRedacted247/status/1604641950178500609
https://twitter.com/NameRedacted247/status/1604641959443714050
https://twitter.com/NameRedacted247/status/1604641968830574595
https://twitter.com/NameRedacted247/status/1604641977504436224
https://twitter.com/NameRedacted247/status/1604641984806690817
https://twitter.com/NameRedacted247/status/1604641990536097792
https://twitter.com/NameRedacted247/status/1604641994801676288
https://twitter.com/NameRedacted247/status/1604641998815735808
https://twitter.com/NameRedacted247/status/1604645182296580096
https://twitter.com/NameRedacted247/status/1604645190760685568
https://twitter.com/NameRedacted247/status/1604645197488345089
https://twitter.com/NameRedacted247/status/1604645204740358145
https://twitter.com/NameRedacted247/status/1604645210813739009
https://twitter.com/NameRedacted247/status/1604645217818157056
https://twitter.com/NameRedacted247/status/1604645223904051200
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https://twitter.com/NameRedacted247/status/1604645242296094721
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https://twitter.com/NameRedacted247/status/1604645254493110273
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https://twitter.com/NameRedacted247/status/1604646083358969856
https://twitter.com/NameRedacted247/status/1604646089558478848
https://twitter.com/NameRedacted247/status/1604646096797437953
https://twitter.com/NameRedacted247/status/1604646103583838209
https://twitter.com/NameRedacted247/status/1604646109862731777

YouTube discussion: The Role of Social Media Companies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hB_YNbnt8x4

Reactions:
https://twitter.com/John_Reston_II/status/1604661454342426626
https://twitter.com/Jules31415/status/1604776422190772229
https://twitter.com/DecTruth/status/1604862910333071361
https://twitter.com/KHDoucette/status/1604819823237779456
https://twitter.com/don_th3_dragon/status/1604650096993259520
https://twitter.com/OwenGregorian/status/1604698962040328192
https://twitter.com/rajeshxsingh/status/1604756887286984706
https://twitter.com/ronaldarguello/status/1604645792995762178
https://twitter.com/JasonRadboy/status/1604708304734879746

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